Margarita Boenig-Liptsin


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Boenig-Liptsin

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Margarita

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0000-0002-2965-7001

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09772 - Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita / Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita

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  • Structured Ways of Thinking about Computing and Society
    Item type: Educational Material
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2021)
    Teaching Responsible Computing Playbook
  • Croissance exponentielle
    Item type: Journal Article
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2015)
    Alliage
  • Discussing Justice and Equity
    Item type: Educational Material
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita; Ricks, Vance (2021)
    Teaching Responsible Computing Playbook
  • Student Team Dynamics
    Item type: Educational Material
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita; Liu, Xin (2021)
    Teaching Responsible Computing Playbook
  • Knowing AI: Generative AI in university research and education
    Item type: Other Journal Item
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2025)
    Entropie
    How should people in universities learn and produce knowledge in the age of generative AI? Critical thinking about technology and knowledge in society gives the first elements of response.
  • The plunger does not have to stop at the bottom of the coffee pot: A lesson on re-framing social reality
    Item type: Other Publication
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2013)
    Vignettes@STS.Next.20
  • Ordinary Ethics in the Age of AI
    Item type: Journal Article
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2025)
    Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study
    Trust. Transparency. Fairness. Ethical principles and the experts who speak for them drive the work of AI ethics, preparing the ground for national policy, corporate decisions, and technology design. In this essay I propose “ordinary ethics” as a distinct and complementary approach to principle- and expert-led ethics. Drawing on scholarship from Science Technology and Society (STS) and moral anthropology, I show how “ordinary ethics” allows analysts to study what makes an ethical life and how people navigate living it in the thick of daily life with technology. Following STS scholarship in co-production, I describe four sites—discourses, identities, representations, and institutions—where ethically significant reconfigurations occur as people work through the encounter of novel epistemic and technological capabilities with existing values, norms, and forms of life. I analyze examples of how people make sense of AI at each site today and show how this analysis deepens the understanding of what the principles stand for and help protect in today's advanced digital societies. As we look at these principles through the lens of ordinary ethics, we see them less as firm guidelines for how to act than as an invitation to examine together—with interdisciplinary scholarship, from perspectives of different societal stakeholders, and from within democratic deliberation. This suggests that the promise of ethics in the age of AI requires taking back a bit of power into ordinary life, for ordinary people, such that questions of what we value as societies and how to creatively keep and grow these values in contexts of daily life with powerful new technologies become a key element of the collective response.
  • Data Science Ethos Lifecycle: Interplay of Ethical Thinking and Data Science Practice
    Item type: Journal Article
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita; Tanweer, Anissa; Edmundson, Ari (2022)
    Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
    This article presents the Data Science Ethos Lifecycle, a tool for engaging responsible workflow developed by an interdisciplinary team of social scientists and data scientists working with the Academic Data Science Alliance. The tool uses a data science lifecycle framework to engage data science students and practitioners with the ethical dimensions of their practice. The lifecycle supports practitioners to increase awareness of how their practice shapes and is shaped by the social world and to articulate their responsibility to public stakeholders. We discuss the theoretical foundations from the fields of Science, Technology and Society, feminist theory, and critical race theory that animate the Ethos Lifecycle and show how these orient the tool toward a normative commitment to justice and what we call the “world-making” view of data science. We introduce four conceptual lenses—positionality, power, sociotechnical systems, and narratives—that are at work in the Ethos Lifecycle and show how they can bring to light ethical and human issues in a real-world data science project.
  • Mechanic citizenship: Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the constitution of digital citizens
    Item type: Journal Article
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2024)
    Ethics and Information Technology
    Projects to integrate digital technologies into the fabric of city life depend upon specific visions of politics and technology. In the process of their realization, they re-constitute the identities, agencies, and relations of human inhabitants, re-defining what it means to be a citizen. This article draws on the idiom of co-production and framework of constitutionalism from Science and Technology Studies (STS) to analyze the coming into being of a form of citizenship with smartphone technologies in Boston in the 2010s. When the Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) used newly available smartphone apps to reconfigure the connection among city residents and government, they brought into being a specific mode of citizenship. I term this mode of citizenship "mechanic" to draw attention to the qualities of passivity, infrastructure, and connectedness that characterized MONUM's early digital citizenship projects. I argue that recognizing that the constitution of the human, and specifically of citizens, is at stake in smart city projects entails re-thinking ethical analysis in contexts of smart cities. Instead of seeking to perform ethical assessments of technological consequences ("ethics of" approach), scholars might begin with a situated analysis of how humans as citizens are constituted through smart city projects ("ethics in" approach). By identifying the political affordances and commitments of the emergent digital citizenship models, scholars can make visible alternative forms of living and engaging politically in the city.
  • Democracy Disrupted: Silicon Valley’s Unprecedented Opportunity to Innovate in the First 100 Days of Trump
    Item type: Other Publication
    Boenig-Liptsin, Margarita (2017)
    First 100 Days: Narratives of Normalization and Disruption
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